Addo Elephant

Addo Elephant National Park is a sprawling conservation area in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, established primarily to protect the last surviving elephants in the region. Covering approximately 1,640 square kilometers, it is the third-largest national park in South Africa and one of the most ecologically diverse, spanning five of the country's seven biomes. The park stretches from the semi-arid Karoo in the north to the coastline of Algoa Bay in the south, encompassing the Sundays River Valley and the dense Addo bush. It is one of the few parks in the world that protects the 'Big Seven' — lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, southern right whale, and great white shark — due to its marine extension into the Indian Ocean.